Jeremiah 20:15

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Cursed `is' the man who bore tidings `to' my father, saying, `Born to thee hath been a child -- a male,' Making him very glad!

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 21:5-6 : 5 And Abraham `is' a son of a hundred years in Isaac his son being born to him, 6 and Sarah saith, `God hath made laughter for me; every one who is hearing laugheth for me.'
  • Jer 1:5 : 5 `Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'
  • Luke 1:14 : 14 and there shall be joy to thee, and gladness, and many at his birth shall joy,

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Jer 20:14
    85%

    14Cursed `is' the day in which I was born, The day that my mother bare me, Let it not be blessed!

  • Jer 20:16-18
    3 verses
    80%

    16Then hath that man been as the cities, That Jehovah overthrew, and repented not, And he hath heard a cry at morning, And a shout at time of noon.

    17Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me -- my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during.

    18Why `is' this? from the womb I have come out, To see labour and sorrow, Yea, consumed in shame are my days!

  • Job 3:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2And Job answereth and saith: --

    3Let the day perish in which I am born, And the night that hath said: `A man-child hath been conceived.'

  • Isa 45:10
    73%

    10Wo `to' him who is saying to a father, `What dost thou beget?' Or to a wife, `What dost thou bring forth?

  • Prov 23:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him.

    25Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful.

  • Jer 15:10
    72%

    10Wo to me, my mother, For thou hast borne me a man of strife, And a man of contention to all the land, I have not lent on usury, Nor have they lent on usury to me -- All of them are reviling me.

  • Deut 27:16
    72%

    16`Cursed `is' He who is making light of his father and his mother, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

  • Hos 13:13
    71%

    13Pangs of a travailing woman come to him, He `is' a son not wise, For he remaineth not the time for the breaking forth of sons.

  • Prov 17:25
    71%

    25A provocation to his father `is' a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.

  • Prov 17:21
    70%

    21Whoso is begetting a fool hath affliction for it, Yea, the father of a fool rejoiceth not.

  • Prov 30:11
    70%

    11A generation `is', that lightly esteemeth their father, And their mother doth not bless.

  • Prov 15:20
    70%

    20A wise son rejoiceth a father. And a foolish man is despising his mother.

  • Gen 27:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12it may be my father doth feel me, and I have been in his eyes as a deceiver, and have brought upon me disesteem, and not a blessing;'

    13and his mother saith to him, `On me thy disesteem, my son; only hearken to my voice, and go, take for me.'

  • 2 Sam 12:14
    69%

    14only, because thou hast caused the enemies of Jehovah greatly to despise by this thing, also the son who is born to thee doth surely die.'

  • Eccl 6:3
    69%

    3If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, `Better than he `is' the untimely birth.'

  • Deut 27:20
    69%

    20`Cursed `is' he who is lying with his father's wife, for he hath uncovered his father's skirt, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

  • Deut 28:16-19
    4 verses
    69%

    16`Cursed `art' thou in the city, and cursed `art' thou in the field.

    17`Cursed `is' thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

    18`Cursed `is' the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock.

    19`Cursed `art' thou in thy coming in, and cursed `art' thou in thy going out.

  • Jer 22:30
    69%

    30Thus said Jehovah: Write ye this man childless, A man -- he doth not prosper in his days, For none of his seed doth prosper, Sitting on the throne of David, And ruling again in Judah!

  • Prov 20:20
    68%

    20Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.

  • 2 Kgs 4:19
    68%

    19and he saith unto his father, `My head, my head;' and he saith unto the young man, `Bear him unto his mother;'

  • Jer 16:3
    68%

    3For thus said Jehovah, Of the sons and of the daughters who are born in this place, And of their mothers -- those bearing them, And of their fathers -- those begetting them in this land:

  • Luke 1:14
    68%

    14and there shall be joy to thee, and gladness, and many at his birth shall joy,

  • Job 10:18
    68%

    18And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.

  • Deut 21:18
    68%

    18`When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious -- he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them --

  • Job 14:1
    68%

    1Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!

  • Ps 109:17
    67%

    17And he loveth reviling, and it meeteth him, And he hath not delighted in blessing, And it is far from him.

  • John 16:21
    67%

    21`The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.

  • Gen 5:29
    67%

    29and calleth his name Noah, saying, `This `one' doth comfort us concerning our work, and concerning the labour of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah hath cursed.'

  • 2 Sam 12:22
    67%

    22And he saith, `While the lad is alive I have fasted, and weep, for I said, Who knoweth? -- Jehovah doth pity me, and the lad hath lived;

  • Deut 21:16
    67%

    16then it hath been, in the day of his causing his sons to inherit that which he hath, he is not able to declare first-born the son of the loved one, in the face of the son of the hated one -- the first-born.

  • Prov 17:6
    67%

    6Sons' sons `are' the crown of old men, And the glory of sons `are' their fathers.

  • Job 3:16
    67%

    16(Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants -- they have not seen light.)

  • Gen 9:25
    67%

    25and saith: `Cursed `is' Canaan, Servant of servants he is to his brethren.'

  • Lev 20:9
    67%

    9`For any man who revileth his father and his mother is certainly put to death; his father and his mother he hath reviled: his blood `is' on him.

  • Ps 7:14
    67%

    14Lo, he travaileth `with' iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.

  • Prov 27:14
    67%

    14Whoso is saluting his friend with a loud voice, In the morning rising early, A light thing it is reckoned to him.

  • 2 Sam 16:11
    67%

    11And David saith unto Abishai, and unto all his servants, `Lo, my son who came out of my bowels is seeking my life, and also surely now the Benjamite; leave him alone, and let him revile, for Jehovah hath said `so' to him;

  • Ezek 18:14
    67%

    14And -- lo, he hath begotten a son, And he seeth all the sins of his father, That he hath done, and he feareth, And doth not do like them,

  • Gen 21:5
    67%

    5And Abraham `is' a son of a hundred years in Isaac his son being born to him,

  • Prov 27:11
    67%

    11Be wise, my son, and rejoice my heart. And I return my reproacher a word.